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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 27 for January 1st - 7th, 2007. In this issue we cover ...

In This Issue

General Community News

LoCo News

Kubuntu Germany to be at At Chemnitzer LInuxTage

Kubuntu will be at Chemnitzer LInuxTage on March 3rd and 4th. We are looking for people to help on the stall, if you are a Kubuntu fan please contact the kubuntu-events mailing list.

We will also be looking for people for Linuxtag in Berlin at the end of May.

http://kubuntu.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-events

This Week's Quiz

Thanks to the UbuntuTrivia Team, headed by Alexandre Vessilitto, we had another exciting quiz this week.

Quizmaster : Champion : Sponsor : Prize :

Upcoming for next week:

Sponsor : Prize :

To participate in the quiz, join #ubuntu-trivia on irc.freenode.net on Friday and/or Saturday UTC-nights - the topic will usually tell you when the next quiz is scheduled.

To give a quiz, contact Alexandre Vassalotti (theCore) - we will probably find you a spot.

To donate a prize, please contact Jenda Vancura (jenda) - your generosity is appreciated. The generic prize is an Ubuntu Poster ($5 value).

The quiz usually has a theme, and the quizmaster will sometimes tell you what the theme of the quiz will be. If not, you can always bribe him/her. By winning the quiz and foregoing the prize, you donate it for the next quiz. This is especially appreciated if you are a frequent winner.

Changes In Fiesty

mozilla-thunderbird 1.5.0.9-0ubuntu1
 Component: main Section: mail on Tue,  2 Jan 2007 12:59:39 -0800 by Kees Cook <kees@ubuntu.com> 
        mozilla-thunderbird - Mozilla Thunderbird standalone mail client
        mozilla-thunderbird-dev - mozilla thunderbird development files
        mozilla-thunderbird-inspector - mozilla thunderbird dom inspector extension
        mozilla-thunderbird-typeaheadfind - mozilla thunderbird typeaheadfind extension
 LINKS:


w3m 0.5.1-5ubuntu2
 Component: main Section: text on Tue,  2 Jan 2007 15:01:15 -0800 by Kees Cook <kees@ubuntu.com> 
        w3m        - WWW browsable pager with excellent tables/frames support
        w3m-img    - inline image extension support utilities for w3m
 LINKS:
        http://sourceforge.net/projects/w3m

testdisk 6.5-1build1
 Component: universe Section: admin on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 17:10:30 +0200 by Vassilis Pandis <pandisv@yahoo.co.uk>
 
        testdisk   - Partition scanner and disk recovery tool
 LINKS:


mysql-query-browser 1.2.5beta-2ubuntu1
 Component: universe Section: misc on Wed,  3 Jan 2007 17:52:53 +0100 by Michael Bienia <geser@ubuntu.com> 
        mysql-query-browser - Official GUI tool to query MySQL database
        mysql-query-browser-common - Architecture independent files for MySQL Query Browser
 LINKS:


gnome-app-install 0.3.3
 Component: main Section: gnome on Wed,  3 Jan 2007 16:10:13 +0100 by Michael Vogt <michael.vogt@ubuntu.com> 
        app-install-data - GNOME Application Installer (data files)
        gnome-app-install - GNOME Application Installer
 LINKS:


picard 0.7.2-2ubuntu1
 Component: universe Section: sound on Mon,  4 Dec 2006 00:32:12 +0100 by Lukas Lalinsky <lalinsky@gmail.com> 
        picard     - Next-Generation MusicBrainz audio files tagger
 LINKS:


ubiquity 1.3.7
 Component: main Section: admin on Wed,  3 Jan 2007 13:59:25 +0000 by Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> 
        ubiquity   - Ubuntu live CD installer
        ubiquity-frontend-gtk - GTK+ frontend for Ubiquity live installer
        ubiquity-frontend-kde - KDE frontend for Ubiquity live installer
        ubiquity-ubuntu-artwork - Ubuntu artwork for Ubiquity live installer
 LINKS:


opencv 0.9.7-4ubuntu1
 Component: universe Section: devel on Wed,  3 Jan 2007 15:28:07 +1100 by Steve Kowalik <stevenk@ubuntu.com> 
        libcv-dev  - development files for libcv
        libcv0.9.7-0 - computer vision library
        libcvaux-dev - development files for libcvaux
        libcvaux0.9.7-0 - computer vision extension library
        libhighgui-dev - development files for libhighgui
        libhighgui0.9.7-0 - computer vision GUI library
        opencv-doc - OpenCV documentation and examples
        python-opencv - Python bindings for the computer vision library
 LINKS:


apport 0.35
 Component: main Section: utils on Wed,  3 Jan 2007 16:45:20 +0100 by Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> 
        apport     - automatically generate crash reports for debugging
        apport-gtk - GTK frontend for the apport crash report system
        python-apport - apport crash report handling library
        python-problem-report - python library to handle problem reports
 LINKS:
        https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AutomatedProblemReports


beryl-manager 0.1.2-0ubuntu1
 Component: universe Section: x11 on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 20:03:29 +0100 by Brandon Holtsclaw <imbrandon@kubuntu.or
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        beryl-manager - Tray application launcher tool for Beryl
 LINKS:


cdrkit 9:1.1.0-1ubuntu2
 Component: main Section: otherosfs on Wed,  3 Jan 2007 19:18:26 +0000 by Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> 
        cdda2wav   - Dummy transition package for icedax
        cdrecord   - Dummy transition package for wodim
        cdrkit-doc - Documentation for the cdrkit package-suite
        genisoimage - Creates ISO-9660 CD-ROM filesystem images
        icedax     - Creates WAV files from audio CDs
        mkisofs    - Dummy transition package for genisoimage
        wodim      - command line CD/DVD writing tool
 LINKS:


gnome-system-tools 2.17.3-0ubuntu3
 Component: main Section: gnome on Wed,  3 Jan 2007 19:35:49 +0100 by Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> 
        gnome-system-tools - Cross-platform configuration utilities for GNOME
 LINKS:


kdeaddons 4:3.5.5-1ubuntu2
 Component: main Section: x11 on Wed,  3 Jan 2007 12:37:46 +0000 by Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> 
        atlantikdesigner - game board designer for Atlantik
        kaddressbook-plugins - plugins for KAddressBook, the KDE address book
        kate-plugins - plugins for Kate, the KDE Advanced Text Editor
        kdeaddons  - add-on plugins and applets provided with KDE
        kdeaddons-dbg - debugging symbols for kdeaddons
        kdeaddons-doc-html - KDE add-ons documentation in HTML format
        kdeaddons-kfile-plugins - KDE file dialog plugins for text files and folders
        kicker-applets - applets for Kicker, the KDE panel
        knewsticker-scripts - scripts for KNewsTicker, the KDE news ticker
        konq-plugins - plugins for Konqueror, the KDE file/web/doc browser
        ksig       - graphical tool for managing multiple email signatures
        noatun-plugins - plugins for Noatun, the KDE media player
 LINKS:

launchpad-integration 0.1.5
 Component: main Section: libs on Tue,  2 Jan 2007 10:01:34 +0100 by Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> 
        launchpad-integration - launchpad integration
        liblaunchpad-integration-dev - library for launchpad integration
        liblaunchpad-integration0 - library for launchpad integration
        liblpint-bonobo-dev - library for launchpad integration
        liblpint-bonobo0 - library for launchpad integration
        python-launchpad-integration - library for launchpad integration
 LINKS:

Launchpad News

In The Press

http://www.itjungle.com/breaking/bn010207-story01.html

http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/01/01/01FEtoysource_1.html

Meetings and Events

Tuesday, January 9, 2007

LoCo Team Meeting

Start: 15:00 UTC End: 16:00 UTC

• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting

• Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeamMeeting

Forum Council Meeting

Start: 16:00 UTC End: 18:00 UTC

• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting

• Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ForumCouncilAgenda

Community Council Meeting

Start: 21:00 UTC End: 23:00 UTC

• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting

• Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncilAgenda

Tuesday, January 16th 2007

Technical Board Meeting

Start: 20:00 UTC End: 22:00 UTC

• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting

• Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TechnicalBoardAgenda

Wendsday, January 17th 2007

Edubuntu Meeting

Start: 20:00 End: 22:00

• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting

• Agenda: https://wiki.edubuntu.org/EdubuntuMeetingAgenda

Thursday, January 18th 2007

Ubuntu Development Team Meeting

Start: 08:00 UTC End: 10:00 UTC

Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting

Community Spotlight

How about https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ZeroConfNetworking ?

Updates and security for 6.06 and 6.10

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Updates

Ubuntu 6.10 Updates

Bug Stats

• Open (#) +/- # over last week
• Critical (#) +/- # over last week
• Unconfirmed (#) +/- # over last week
• Unassigned (#) +/- # over last week
• All bugs ever reported (#) +/- # over last week

As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started, please see [WWW] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HelpingWithBugs

Check out the bug statistics: http://people.ubuntu-in.org/~carthik/bugstats/

Infamous Bugs

UWN #: A sneak peek

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